Pressing Sorgum syrup

GNP Fatboy · Oct 11, 2010

some pics. of us pressing sweet sorgum for juice to be boiled down for syrup. First pic. is my daughter and I feeding cane into the press. Second is the "wise" elders getting ready to chop the remains.

Case Pres 1 · Oct 12, 2010

Where are you located? We cooked a batch last Saturday.

GNP Fatboy · Oct 12, 2010

We are north of St. Cloud MN

riverbend · Oct 12, 2010

What are you using for seed ? I'm looking for a short season variety. The Rox Orange I planted in early June never matured.

Greg
Delano, MN

Al L. in Wisc. · Oct 12, 2010

Thanks for sharing. I would like to see that operation in person. When I was young and skinnier, mom would make cornbread and we topped it w/sorghum. It is something I enjoy making on cold Sunday mornings. My late dad liked sorghum on cottage cheese. That barn in the background is neat - tile walls and the cross-buck doors and multiple windows. Looks like you had fun!

Anonymous-0 · Oct 12, 2010

Hey Al L, we run sorghum down at Thresheree in Edgerton during the Labor Day show.

Wardner · Oct 12, 2010

How come the first picture looks like harvest time and the second picture looks like mid-April? Can it be that birch or maple sap and sorghum are harvested at the same time?

Anonymous-0 · Oct 12, 2010

Hey Al L, we run sorghum down at Thresheree in Edgerton during the Labor Day show.

sflem849 · Oct 12, 2010

(quoted from post at 05:38:25 10/12/10) What are you using for seed ? I'm looking for a short season variety. The Rox Orange I planted in early June never matured.

Greg
Delano, MN

That is a pretty late start. Maybe that has something to do with it.

GNP Fatboy · Oct 12, 2010

We use ours mostly for baking. (ginger snap cookies) The whole farm is done up like the barn, and the old yellow brick house is restored with porches and all. Send me an E-mail and can get you more info on where and when.
Thanks Kevin

GNP Fatboy · Oct 12, 2010

We harvest our maple sap in Mar. or April and sorghum before the first frost. Late Sept. early Oct.

GNP Fatboy · Oct 12, 2010

Not sure what it is can look later but we put ours in in April before we plant corn.

riverbend · Oct 13, 2010

We're organic so we can't use treated seeds. I'll have to try several earlier plantings to see if one of them will make it.

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